In his 1945 report "Science, The Endless Frontier," Bush envisioned science as a source of light that could drive away the ...

Archeologists believe the boy may have found the remains of the St. Anthony, a schooner that crashed in 1856.

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The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

All that you've heard about the Vikings may not be true.

When looking for the origin of microbiology, it is typical to refer to the latter part of the 19th century, when it developed ...

For most of the 19th century it was not possible for a woman to obtain a university degree in Britain. That changed in 1878 ...

A battlefield that will be at the universities,” he added. Experts have voiced concerns that Trump’s cuts to American ...

H.G. Wells redefined science fiction through radical ideas, haunting visions of the future, and sharp social critique that ...

He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume, and from his affairs with women to his lack of deference to his so-called superiors ...

In "So Very Small," author Thomas Levenson recounts the complex history of how humans came to discover germs and the near-invisible microbial world that surrounds us. He unpacks how and why ideas — ...

Much is shrouded in mystery about a Surrey church that is sealed for the Second Coming. For years, nobody has been allowed to peek behind the ornate stone walls and intricate rose window of the ...